Do the ‘un­lucky’ sys­tem­at­i­cally un­der­es­ti­mate high-var­i­ance strate­gies?

MBlume12 Oct 2009 22:27 UTC
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What Pro­gram Are You?

RobinHanson12 Oct 2009 0:29 UTC
36 points
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Link: PRISMs, Gom Jab­bars, and Con­scious­ness (Peter Watts)

JulianMorrison11 Oct 2009 21:51 UTC
14 points
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The Ar­gu­ment from Wit­ness Testimony

Johnicholas10 Oct 2009 14:05 UTC
8 points
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How to get that Friendly Sin­gu­lar­ity: a minor­ity view

Mitchell_Porter10 Oct 2009 10:56 UTC
17 points
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I’m Not Say­ing Peo­ple Are Stupid

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Oct 2009 16:23 UTC
57 points
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LW Meetup Google Calendar

MBlume7 Oct 2009 22:51 UTC
14 points
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Bos­ton Area Less Wrong Meetup: 2 pm Sun­day Oc­to­ber 11th

CarlShulman7 Oct 2009 21:15 UTC
8 points
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New Haven/​Yale Less Wrong Meetup: 5 pm, Mon­day Oc­to­ber 12

CarlShulman7 Oct 2009 20:35 UTC
7 points
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Let them eat cake: In­ter­per­sonal Prob­lems vs Tasks

HughRistik7 Oct 2009 16:35 UTC
96 points
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The First Step is to Ad­mit That You Have a Problem

Alicorn6 Oct 2009 20:59 UTC
85 points
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The Pre­sump­tu­ous Philoso­pher’s Pre­sump­tu­ous Friend

PlaidX5 Oct 2009 5:26 UTC
4 points
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Don’t Think Too Hard.

[deleted]5 Oct 2009 3:51 UTC
14 points
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Dy­ing Outside

HalFinney5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC
396 points
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When Willpower Attacks

jimrandomh3 Oct 2009 3:36 UTC
22 points
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‘oy, girls on lw, want to get to­gether some time?’

MBlume2 Oct 2009 10:50 UTC
38 points
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Scott Aaron­son on Born Probabilities

Wei Dai2 Oct 2009 6:40 UTC
39 points
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Dom­i­nant char­ac­ters on the left

KatjaGrace1 Oct 2009 22:40 UTC
1 point
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Are you a Demo­crat sin­gle­to­nian, or a Repub­li­can sin­gle­to­nian?

PhilGoetz1 Oct 2009 21:35 UTC
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Why Don’t We Ap­ply What We Know About Twins to Every­body Else?

MichaelGR1 Oct 2009 16:23 UTC
20 points
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Open Thread: Oc­to­ber 2009

gwern1 Oct 2009 12:49 UTC
8 points
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Reg­u­lar NYC Meetups

MBlume1 Oct 2009 12:44 UTC
11 points
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NY-area OB/​LW meetup Satur­day 10/​3 7 PM

MBlume30 Sep 2009 23:52 UTC
10 points
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In­tu­itive differ­ences: when to agree to disagree

Kaj_Sotala29 Sep 2009 7:56 UTC
35 points
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Why Many-Wor­lds Is Not The Ra­tion­ally Fa­vored Interpretation

Mitchell_Porter29 Sep 2009 5:22 UTC
13 points
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Priv­ileg­ing the Hypothesis

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Sep 2009 0:40 UTC
125 points
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Your Most Valuable Skill

Alicorn27 Sep 2009 17:01 UTC
32 points
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The An­thropic Trilemma

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Sep 2009 1:47 UTC
69 points
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The Scylla of Er­ror and the Charyb­dis of Paralysis

Johnicholas26 Sep 2009 16:01 UTC
16 points
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Cor­re­lated de­ci­sion mak­ing: a com­plete theory

Stuart_Armstrong26 Sep 2009 11:47 UTC
10 points
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Non-Malthu­sian Scenarios

Wei Dai26 Sep 2009 2:44 UTC
24 points
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Solu­tions to Poli­ti­cal Prob­lems As Counterfactuals

Scott Alexander25 Sep 2009 17:21 UTC
46 points
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The util­ity curve of the hu­man population

dclayh24 Sep 2009 21:00 UTC
9 points
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Min­neapo­lis Meetup, This Satur­day (26th) at 3:00 PM, Univer­sity of Min­nesota

FrankAdamek24 Sep 2009 20:18 UTC
5 points
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Bore­dom vs. Scope Insensitivity

Wei Dai24 Sep 2009 11:45 UTC
56 points
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An­thropic rea­son­ing and cor­re­lated de­ci­sion making

Stuart_Armstrong23 Sep 2009 15:10 UTC
9 points
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Avoid­ing dooms­day: a “proof” of the self-in­di­ca­tion assumption

Stuart_Armstrong23 Sep 2009 14:54 UTC
26 points
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‘Clearly’ cov­ers murky thought

KatjaGrace22 Sep 2009 18:26 UTC
1 point
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Ethics as a black box function

Kaj_Sotala22 Sep 2009 17:25 UTC
14 points
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Why do an­i­mal lovers want an­i­mals to feel pain?

KatjaGrace21 Sep 2009 9:00 UTC
1 point
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The Fi­nale of the Ul­ti­mate Meta Mega Crossover

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Sep 2009 17:21 UTC
52 points
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How to use SMILE to solve Bayes Nets

Johnicholas20 Sep 2009 12:08 UTC
16 points
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Rea­son as memetic im­mune disorder

PhilGoetz19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC
498 points
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Hy­po­thet­i­cal Paradoxes

Psychohistorian19 Sep 2009 6:28 UTC
12 points
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Min­neapo­lis Meetup: Sur­vey of interest

JustinShovelain18 Sep 2009 18:52 UTC
8 points
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MWI, weird quan­tum ex­per­i­ments and fu­ture-di­rected con­ti­nu­ity of con­scious experience

SforSingularity18 Sep 2009 16:45 UTC
6 points
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Quan­tum Rus­sian Roulette

Christian_Szegedy18 Sep 2009 8:49 UTC
8 points
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So­cio­sex­ual Ori­en­ta­tion In­ven­tory, or failing to perform ba­sic san­ity checks

taw16 Sep 2009 10:00 UTC
5 points
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What is the Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit?

Liron16 Sep 2009 7:18 UTC
14 points
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The Ab­sent-Minded Driver

Wei Dai16 Sep 2009 0:51 UTC
46 points
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